What Sixers had to say about Eagles' NFC Championship vs Minnesota Vikings | Recent history of Eagles-Sixers interactions

PHILADELPHIA — Just as the Eagles are set to host their first NFC Championship since 2005 on Sunday night, the Sixers will already be out of town.

But there was no way coach Brett Brown was going to let his team miss the game. The Sixers were scheduled to fly their charter plane out of Philadelphia to Memphis for Monday's road game at the Grizzlies, but altered the schedule slightly, allowing the Sixers to leave about 30 minutes earlier than the originally scheduled time, per a Sixers spokesman, so the team can arrive at the hotel and settle in for the game.

Brown said the team will have a large room with a TV set up and catered food so the team can take in the Eagles game together.

Saturday night, the Sixers won against the Milwaukee Bucks, and Brown and a few players were asked about the Eagles. Here's what some of them had to say, plus a look back at some other teams the two franchises showed their support for each other and interacted this season.

Brett Brown

Brett Brown (1)

Brown after Saturday night's win: "We re-jiggled our schedule to try to get on a plane earlier. We’re going to head down to Memphis, we have a room waiting for us, a good spread of food waiting for us and we’re going to enjoy this with the city of Philadelphia. Something like this doesn’t come along very often, so on behalf of our team, we say it like the rest of our city: go eagles!"

Joel Embiid

Matt Rourke

Joel Embiid

Embiid on Saturday night: "I want to say good luck. Every time I go to an Eagles game, they always win. I don’t know if I’ve ever been to a game and they lost so hopefully they’ll win. I’m definitely pulling for them. But I hope they do it for the city. Hopefully they win and go on to the Super Bowl."